LEELANAU COUNTY, MI – After her iPhone 5 was stolen, a 21-year-old Michigan State University student, using an Apple phone-location application, turned detective and tracked it down to a house on Jacobson Road in Suttons Bay Township.

Lealanau County Sheriff’s deputies took over from there.

Police contacted MSU housing officials and determined that a 19-year-old MSU student, who lives across the hall from where the iPhone was stolen, lived in the Jacobson home. Police confronted the young woman, who took the phone from her purse and gave it to police.

She told police that she was unable to use the phone because it was password-protected. Not for lack of trying.

Police said the suspect posted on Facebook: “Anyone in LC (Leelanau County) that can jailbreak an iPhone?”

The phone was stolen from a dorm room on Friday, May 3. The victim contacted MSU police and began looking for her phone using the locator application. She told sheriff’s deputies on Sunday that her phone was turned off most of the time, but turned on periodically.

The phone will be returned to the victim in East Lansing.

Reports will be turned over to prosecutors in Leelanau and Ingham counties seeking warrants for possession of stolen property and larceny in a building, Leelanau County sheriff’s deputies said.